The built environmental plays an integral role in meeting society’s most basic needs of shelter, security, mobility, community, and water and waste treatment, but it also contributes significantly to the sustainability challenges of climate change, pollution, resource consumption, and land use. As society and government policy increase pressure to reduce the environmental impacts of our everyday activities, individuals must increasingly understand how the built environment they design and maintain fits into the complex environmental and human system in which we live.

This minor provides a guiding framework for educating individuals who will design and maintain our future built environment in the challenges and potential solutions for improved sustainability.

The minor is designed to attract students from a range of departments and programs across campus, including, but not limited to, Environmental Science and Policy, Urban Planning, Plant Sciences, Landscape Architecture, Design, Engineering, Community and Regional Development, Anthropology, Agriculture and Resource Economics, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Remote Sensing, Environmental Toxicology, Applied Biological Systems Technology, Geology, Hydrology, and Nature and Culture. Students enrolled in the minor will acquire fundamental skills and knowledge of the elements and integrated processes necessary for a sustainable built environment.

Successful completion of the minor requires both a minimum overall UC GPA of 2.000 and a minimum 2.000 GPA for the coursework completed for the minor, with no grade lower than a C- for any course used for the minor. All courses must be taken for a letter grade.

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):CHE 002B.Pass One open to students in the College of Engineering.Introduction to topics in environmental engineering; discussion on influence of literary work, art, and media on the evolution of environmental engineering practice, relevant laws, and regulations; presentations of historical case studies.(Letter.)GE credit: AH.Effective: 2017 Winter Quarter.

ECI090X—Lower Division Seminar(1-4)Active

Seminar—1-4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor.Examination of a special topic in a small group setting.May be repeated for credit.(Letter.)GE credit: SE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):MAT 021C C- or better.Probabilistic concepts and models in engineering. Statistical analysis of engineering experimental and field data. Introduction to stochastic processes and models of engineering systems.Not open for credit to students who have completed STA 120.(Letter.)GE credit: QL, SE.Effective: 2013 Fall Quarter.

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Upper division standing in Engineering.Open to students in the College of Engineering.Mechanisms of energy consumption in buildings including end uses, thermal loads, ventilation, air infiltration, thermal energy distribution, and HVAC systems; energy performance simulation; methods and strategies of energy efficiency.(Letter.)GE credit: SE.Effective: 2011 Winter Quarter.

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):ECI 130.Design of metallic beams, columns, and other members for various types of loading and boundary conditions; design of connections between members; member performance within structural systems.(Letter.)GE credit: SE, VL.Effective: 2013 Fall Quarter.

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):ECI 130 C- or better.Design of metallic beams, columns, and other members for various types of loading and boundary conditions; design of connections between members; member performance within structural systems.(Letter.)GE credit: SE, VL.Effective: 2019 Winter Quarter.

Lecture—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):CHE 002B C- or better.Pass One restricted to Environmental Engineering majors. Introduction to "wet chemical" and instrumental techniques commonly used in the examination of water and wastewater and associated data analysis.Not open for credit to students who have taken ECH 140 or CHE 100.(Letter.)GE credit: SE.Effective: 2018 Winter Quarter.

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):ECI 140A C- or better or ECI 140B C- or better.Fundamental microbiology concepts for environmental engineers; provides background needed for the application of water and wastewater treatment, bioremediation, air pollution control and biotransformations in environmental engineered systems. Only two units of credit for students who have taken MIC 101 or MIC 102.(Letter.)GE credit: SE.Effective: 2018 Winter Quarter.

ECI140D—Water and Wastewater Treatment System Design(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):(ENG 103 C- or better or ECI 100 C- or better); (ECI 140 C- or better or ECI 140A C- or better or ECI 140B C- or better or ECI 140C C- or better or ECI 148A C- or better).Evaluation and design of water and wastewater treatment systems. Not open for credit to students who have taken ECI 148B.(Letter.)GE credit: SE.Effective: 2018 Winter Quarter.

Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):ENG 103 C- or better or ECI 100 C- or better.Computer simulation techniques in the analysis, design and operation of surface water systems; modeling concepts and practices with application to surface runoff; water quality in rivers and streams and dispersion of contaminants in water bodies.(Letter.)GE credit: SE.Effective: 2018 Winter Quarter.

Internship.Prerequisite(s):Upper division standing; approval of project prior to the period of the internship.Supervised work experience in civil engineering.May be repeated for credit.(P/NP grading only.)GE credit: SE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture—2 hour(s); Laboratory—2 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):(ECI 140D C- or better) or (ECI 171 C- or better, ECI 171L C- or better) or (ECI 132 C- or better or ECI 135 C- or better) or (ECI 161 C- or better or ECI 163 C- or better) or (ECI 141 C- or better, ECI 141L C- or better); and Consent of Instructor. And one ECI major depth course with a C- or better. Students must be in final year of study.Open to seniors in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering only; students must be in their final year of study. Culminating design experience for civil engineering and environmental engineering majors. Student teams work closely with faculty, city officials or consulting clients to propose, implement and validate a unique solution to a real-world problem. (Letter.)GE credit: OL, SE, WE.Effective: 2018 Winter Quarter.

Lecture—2 hour(s); Laboratory—2 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):(ECI 140D C- or better) or (ECI 171 C- or better, ECI 171L C- or better) or (ECI 132 C- or better or ECI 135 C- or better) or (ECI 161 C- or better or ECI 163 C- or better) or (ECI 141 C- or better, ECI 141L C- or better); and Consent of Instructor. And one other ECI major depth course with a C- or better; students must be in their final year of study.Open to seniors in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering only.Culminating design experience for civil engineering and environmental engineering majors. Student teams work closely with faculty, city officials or consulting clients to propose, implement and validate a unique solution to a real-world problem. (Letter.)GE credit: OL, SE, WE.Effective: 2018 Fall Quarter.

Lecture—4 hour(s).Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for use in developing design spectra and for seismic risk analyses, including the development of earthquake ground motion time series for use in dynamic analyses of structures.(Letter.)Effective: 2016 Winter Quarter.

Lecture—4 hour(s).Enrollment restricted to graduate students.Life cycle assessment methodology. Emphasis on applications to infrastructure and energy systems. Life cycle design, life cycle cost methods, other tools from industrial ecology, and links to policy.Not open to students who have taken ECI 244.(Same course as EGG 201.)(Letter.)Effective: 2019 Winter Quarter.

Lecture—4 hour(s).Open to graduate students.Diverse physical processes that govern climate and drive climate change. Observational, experimental and modeling techniques and methods used in the development of our scientific understanding of the Earth system. (Letter.)Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

Lecture—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3 hour(s).Introduction to modern data science, specifically data acquisition, exploratory data analysis, visualization, and beginning data analysis using R. Emphasizes computational reasoning and working with tabular and non-standard data. Focus will be on data generated in the built environment.(Same course as GEO 279.)(Letter.)Effective: 2017 Fall Quarter.

ECI256—Urban Traffic Management and Control(4)Active

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):ECI 114.Basic concepts, models, and methods related to the branch of traffic science that deals with the movement of vehicles on a road network, including travel speed, travel time, congestion concepts, car-following and hydrodynamic traffic models.(Letter.)Effective: 2000 Fall Quarter.

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):CHE 002B; (ENG 103 or ECI 100); Upper division or graduate standing.Pass One restricted to graduate standing; Pass Two restricted to upper division standing or graduate standing.Colloid occurrence, properties, behavior in different environments, and transport mechanisms in water and soils. Emphasis on their role in water contamination.(Letter.)Effective: 2018 Fall Quarter.

ECI264A—Transport, Mixing and Water Quality in River and Lakes(4)Active

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):ECI 141; ECI 240.Principal causes of mixing and transport in rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and their impacts on water quality. Case studies of specific lakes and rivers.(Letter.)Effective: 2000 Fall Quarter.

ECI264B—Transport, Mixing and Water Quality in Estuaries and Wetlands(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):ECI 114; ECI 141; ECI 142; ECI 153 recommended.Engineering, institutional, economic, and social basis for managing local and regional water resources. Examples in the context of California's water development and management. Uses of computer modeling to improve water management.(Same course as GEO 212.)(Letter.)Effective: 2013 Fall Quarter.

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):ECI 114; ECI 153; Or the equivalent.Planning and management of water resource systems. Deterministic and stochastic simulation and optimization techniques. Capacity design and operation of reservoir systems for water supply, hydropower, flood control, and environmental objectives.(Letter.)Effective: 2018 Winter Quarter.

ECI275—Hydrologic Time-Series Analysis(4)Active

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):ECI 114; ECI 142.Application of statistical methods for analysis and modeling of hydrologic series. Statistical simulation and prediction of hydrologic sequences using time series methodology.(Letter.)Effective: 2003 Fall Quarter.

ECI276—Watershed Hydrology(4)Active

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):ECI 142; Or the equivalent.Analysis and mathematical modeling of hydrologic processes taking place in a watershed. Precipitation analysis and modeling. Theory of overland flow and its kinematic wave approximation.Analysis and modeling of saturated and unsaturated subsurface flow processes taking place on a hill slope.(Letter.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

ECI277A—Computational River Mechanics I(4)Active

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):EAD 115 (can be concurrent); ECI 141 (can be concurrent).Unsteady open channel flows, computation of water surface profiles, shallow water equations, St. Venant equations, method of characteristics, finite difference methods, stability and accuracy of explicit and implicit schemes, flood routing in simple and compound channels, advection of plumes.Not open for credit to students who have taken ECI 277.(Letter.)Effective: 2004 Fall Quarter.

Lecture—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor.State of the art finite element methods and tools for elasticplastic problems, including computational techniques based on the finite element method and the theory of elastoplasticity.(Letter.)Effective: 2008 Spring Quarter.